So you had a bad day
03-05-2013, 12:07 PM
#91
After reading all the trials and tribs in this thread I find that my back pain and plumbing sitch is minor by comparison. 
Oh, the plumber will be here tomorrow afternoon, so I'm chillin' til then.
Oh, the plumber will be here tomorrow afternoon, so I'm chillin' til then.
03-05-2013, 01:12 PM
#92
Gene, we have the same problems with our MG club dues ($20-online newsletter or $35-printed newsletter). Hardly a deal breaker.
Feb 1 notice
Mar 1 due
Mar 2 past due notices
Mar 15 delinquent members contacted
Apr 1 roster finalized
As of today 36% are past due.
NOW, for my bitch. Sat at the Sec of States Office this PM. I was #66 and they were serving #16 when I got there. I was doing a 10-year renewal for antique plates and they said to bring in proof of ins. I already renewed ins till 3/23/14 and showed them the proof. NO GOOD. Had to prove it was in effect today. I'd already toss out the old proof and replaced it with the new. And, of course, they can't call anyone or look up anything...... must have the same little piece of paper they have been using since Ford sent his first car down the line. So I sat there for over an hour for nothing and have to go back in 3 weeks.
Feb 1 notice
Mar 1 due
Mar 2 past due notices
Mar 15 delinquent members contacted
Apr 1 roster finalized
As of today 36% are past due.
NOW, for my bitch. Sat at the Sec of States Office this PM. I was #66 and they were serving #16 when I got there. I was doing a 10-year renewal for antique plates and they said to bring in proof of ins. I already renewed ins till 3/23/14 and showed them the proof. NO GOOD. Had to prove it was in effect today. I'd already toss out the old proof and replaced it with the new. And, of course, they can't call anyone or look up anything...... must have the same little piece of paper they have been using since Ford sent his first car down the line. So I sat there for over an hour for nothing and have to go back in 3 weeks.
03-05-2013, 05:31 PM
#93
Registered User
Originally Posted by paS2K' timestamp='1362509833' post='22382002
Our little cul-de-sac is only 35 homes, but we have the equivalent of an HOA. We maintain the "common green", main loop roadway and service drives, trees, leaf-raking and snow plowing. Dues are $450/yr and we also have laggards in payment. The treasurer is a young lady who is net savvy and she deluges the late-payers with weekly emails. Most people pay up before the annual meeting in early February...lest their name be read out loud to their assembled fellow homeowners 
Unless there is a reason in Bylaws to NOT do it, I suggest any group like this have a "late charge" for each month "past due". Some people just don't want to do that....meanwhile wasting the time of volunteer officers like you
Unless there is a reason in Bylaws to NOT do it, I suggest any group like this have a "late charge" for each month "past due". Some people just don't want to do that....meanwhile wasting the time of volunteer officers like you
We also have in our by-laws the ability to assess a late charge, but I haven't done that in the past. Maybe time to start? 
I'll see how the response from this round of letters pans out.I'd simply mail everyone a list of who had paid in full and who had not yet paid.
Forget the late fee, just use public humiliation.
The simple power of moral suasion.
03-05-2013, 07:27 PM
#94
Originally Posted by jukngene' timestamp='1362510664' post='22382043
[quote name='paS2K' timestamp='1362509833' post='22382002']
Our little cul-de-sac is only 35 homes, but we have the equivalent of an HOA. We maintain the "common green", main loop roadway and service drives, trees, leaf-raking and snow plowing. Dues are $450/yr and we also have laggards in payment. The treasurer is a young lady who is net savvy and she deluges the late-payers with weekly emails. Most people pay up before the annual meeting in early February...lest their name be read out loud to their assembled fellow homeowners
Unless there is a reason in Bylaws to NOT do it, I suggest any group like this have a "late charge" for each month "past due". Some people just don't want to do that....meanwhile wasting the time of volunteer officers like you
Our little cul-de-sac is only 35 homes, but we have the equivalent of an HOA. We maintain the "common green", main loop roadway and service drives, trees, leaf-raking and snow plowing. Dues are $450/yr and we also have laggards in payment. The treasurer is a young lady who is net savvy and she deluges the late-payers with weekly emails. Most people pay up before the annual meeting in early February...lest their name be read out loud to their assembled fellow homeowners
Unless there is a reason in Bylaws to NOT do it, I suggest any group like this have a "late charge" for each month "past due". Some people just don't want to do that....meanwhile wasting the time of volunteer officers like you
We also have in our by-laws the ability to assess a late charge, but I haven't done that in the past. Maybe time to start? I'll see how the response from this round of letters pans out.I'd simply mail everyone a list of who had paid in full and who had not yet paid.
Forget the late fee, just use public humiliation.
The simple power of moral suasion.
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I like the way you think but you are right you probably would not be there very long.
03-05-2013, 07:41 PM
#96
If anyone of yous guys came to AZ and didn't ring me up, I'd have to post in this thread. I'm just stuck for the third day of an asbestos inspector training class. Argh! Federal regulations out the ying-yang!
03-07-2013, 07:30 AM
#97
Originally Posted by boltonblue' timestamp='1362537100' post='22383179
[quote name='jukngene' timestamp='1362510664' post='22382043']
[quote name='paS2K' timestamp='1362509833' post='22382002']
Our little cul-de-sac is only 35 homes, but we have the equivalent of an HOA. We maintain the "common green", main loop roadway and service drives, trees, leaf-raking and snow plowing. Dues are $450/yr and we also have laggards in payment. The treasurer is a young lady who is net savvy and she deluges the late-payers with weekly emails. Most people pay up before the annual meeting in early February...lest their name be read out loud to their assembled fellow homeowners
Unless there is a reason in Bylaws to NOT do it, I suggest any group like this have a "late charge" for each month "past due". Some people just don't want to do that....meanwhile wasting the time of volunteer officers like you
[quote name='paS2K' timestamp='1362509833' post='22382002']
Our little cul-de-sac is only 35 homes, but we have the equivalent of an HOA. We maintain the "common green", main loop roadway and service drives, trees, leaf-raking and snow plowing. Dues are $450/yr and we also have laggards in payment. The treasurer is a young lady who is net savvy and she deluges the late-payers with weekly emails. Most people pay up before the annual meeting in early February...lest their name be read out loud to their assembled fellow homeowners
Unless there is a reason in Bylaws to NOT do it, I suggest any group like this have a "late charge" for each month "past due". Some people just don't want to do that....meanwhile wasting the time of volunteer officers like you
We also have in our by-laws the ability to assess a late charge, but I haven't done that in the past. Maybe time to start? I'll see how the response from this round of letters pans out.I'd simply mail everyone a list of who had paid in full and who had not yet paid.
Forget the late fee, just use public humiliation.
The simple power of moral suasion.
[/quote]
I like the way you think but you are right you probably would not be there very long.
[/quote]
Last year I was at a high end golf club in Louisville (one of my vendors took me to show it off, he belongs to it).....
He made it a point to show me a list hanging on one of the walls that showed who was late with their payments!
Said most people get off the list real quick when they see that they are on it.
03-07-2013, 07:32 AM
#98
OK... bitch time....
Don't you just love it when you have been asking for information from co-workers..... for months...
Then the co-workers boss goes off on you saying "why are you late getting the program started?".... all of this done in front of the co-worker you have been asking for the information from....
And the co-worker just sits there and says nothing?
Don't you just love it when you have been asking for information from co-workers..... for months...
Then the co-workers boss goes off on you saying "why are you late getting the program started?".... all of this done in front of the co-worker you have been asking for the information from....
And the co-worker just sits there and says nothing?
03-07-2013, 07:48 AM
#99
^
Throw him under the bus!
Throw him under the bus!
03-07-2013, 11:09 AM
#100
OK... bitch time....Don't you just love it when you have been asking for information from co-workers..... for months...Then the co-workers boss goes off on you saying "why are you late getting the program started?".... all of this done in front of the co-worker you have been asking for the information from....And the co-worker just sits there and says nothing?
Bus had already left for the day!
